Register Preservation in Inline ASM Blocks
    dsimcha 
    dsimcha at yahoo.com
       
    Fri Nov 19 17:17:19 PST 2010
    
    
  
What is the rule on who is responsible for saving registers when inserting an
inline ASM block into the middle of a function?  For example:
void fun() {
    auto ptr = somePointer();
    asm {
        mov EAX, ptr;
        lock;
        inc [EAX];
    }
}
Is this acceptable (will the compiler do what it needs to do to deal with my
usage of EAX), or do I need to do something more like:
asm {
    push EAX;
    lock;
    inc [EAX];
    pop EAX;
}
, leaving EAX exactly as I found it?
    
    
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